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Carrington's Coppice Opencast Colliery, Smalley, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 12/04/1948. Creator: John Laing plc.

Carrington's Coppice Opencast Colliery, Smalley, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 12/04/1948. Creator: John Laing plc.

2-847-461 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

A small team of men at work in the opencast mine at Carrington's Coppice as an excavator looms overhead. John Laing and Son Ltd had started opencast mining operations in 1942 to meet wartime needs. The work was expanded by the company after the war. Carrington's Coppice was the largest site that the company worked and was the deepest opencast site in Britain. Work started in 1947 and by 1949 the seam was worked out. By August 1950 the land was reinstated for agricultural use.

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Creator
  1. John Laing plc, attributed to: British: construction and civil engineering company
Medium
  1. Photograph
Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe United Kingdom England Derbyshire Smalley

  1. 52 59 00 N , 001 23 00 W
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5284x5528
File Size : 28,526kb

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  1. JLP01/07/015/095
  1. JLP01_07_015_095
  1. 0250009146
  1. 2-847-461
  1. 2847461
  1. JLP01/07/015/095

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